{"id":315072,"date":"2019-09-16T05:53:10","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T05:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=315072"},"modified":"2019-09-16T05:53:10","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T05:53:10","slug":"a-special-gesture-says-pm-modi-on-donald-trump-joining-him-at-howdy-modi-event-in-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/a-special-gesture-says-pm-modi-on-donald-trump-joining-him-at-howdy-modi-event-in-houston\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A Special gesture\u2019, says PM Modi on Donald Trump joining him at \u2018Howdy Modi!\u2019 event in Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-315073 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/modi-trump-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"676\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/09\/modi-trump-1.jpg 676w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/09\/modi-trump-1-300x178.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/>Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said that he was delighted that US President Donald Trump would join the Indian community programme in Houston on September 22 and called it a &#8220;special gesture&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cA special gesture by @POTUS, signifying the special friendship between India and USA! Delighted that President @realDonaldTrump will join the community programme in Houston on the 22nd. Looking forward to joining the Indian origin community in welcoming him at the programme,\u201d Modi said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe special gesture of President @realDonaldTrump to join us in Houston highlights the strength of the relationship and recognition of the contribution of the Indian community to American society and economy,\u201d Modi added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">White House on Sunday in a statement confirmed that President Trump will attend the \u2018Howdy Modi\u2019 event.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">This will be the first time a US president and Indian Prime Minister will be addressing a joint rally.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the reports, more than 50,000 Indian Americans from across the US have registered for the event to be held at the NRG Stadium in Houston.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0The White House said, \u201cIt will be a great opportunity to emphasize the\u00a0strong ties between the people of\u00a0the United States and India, to reaffirm the strategic partnership between the world\u2019s oldest and largest democracies, and to discuss ways to deepen their energy and trade relationship.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said that he was delighted that US President Donald Trump would join the Indian community programme in Houston on September 22 and called it a &#8220;special gesture&#8221;. \u201cA special gesture by @POTUS, signifying the special friendship between India and USA! Delighted that President @realDonaldTrump will join the community programme [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":315073,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[64,316],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315072"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315074,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315072\/revisions\/315074"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/315073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}